{"product_id":"starlight-in-two-million-a-neo-scientific-novella","title":"Starlight in Two Million: A Neo-Scientific Novella","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmy Catanzano's \"neo-scientific\" novella considers the forces that compose the cosmos, a recomposition of the music of the spheres. Here, narrative flow becomes a kind of quantum fluid, bifurcating into character systems and poetry. Tinctures of the inhuman spread through this writing, causing language to convulse in forms as vivid and varied as the multiverse itself. Alternately explosive and meditative, at once lyrical and conceptual, Catanzano's work renews the pataphysical claim of literature on science.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecipient of the PEN USA Literary Award in Poetry and the Noemi Press Book Award in Fiction, \u003cstrong\u003eAmy Catanzano\u003c\/strong\u003e publishes poetry and fiction, nonfiction prose, poetic theory, and multimodal literary art, including web-expanded literature. Writing in parallel to cutting-edge physics as well as the literary and artistic subcultures of the avant-garde, she forges innovative connections between literature, science, and the arts. Drawing from invited residencies and visits to scientific research centers such as CERN, and as the lead co-founder of \u003cem\u003eThe Entanglements Network\u003c\/em\u003e—an international collective of transdisciplinary writers, scientists, artists, and scholars—Catanzano collaborates with scientists in addition to her independent projects. An associate professor of English and the poet-in-residence at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, she has a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Amy Catanzano's writing is a vector, releasing sparks. To read her work is to emit\/receive—something. From a distant yet intimate point. What will happen next? Where will you go? This novella is a guidebook to a future that has not arrived yet. To 'predicate.' To 'devolve.' To 'shimmer.' In a book that is a like a nerve.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eBhanu Kapil\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Amy Catanzano's 'neo-scientific' novella is a metafictional tour de force: a tour of the forces that compose the cosmos, a recomposition of the music of the spheres. Here, narrative flow becomes a kind of quantum fluid, bifurcating into character systems and poetry. Tinctures of the inhuman spread through this writing, causing language to convulse in forms as vivid and varied as the multiverse itself. Alternately explosive and meditative, at once lyrical and conceptual, Catanzano's work renews the pataphysical claim of literature on science. In this work, American literature has found its own Jarry.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Joron\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Itasca Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54526377754899,"sku":"9781934819395","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/3521\/2563\/files\/9781934819395ita.jpg?v=1785852125","url":"https:\/\/danuc.net\/products\/starlight-in-two-million-a-neo-scientific-novella","provider":"Danu's Wardrobe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}